National Climate Change Response Green Paper: mitigation

1. National Climate Change Response Green Paper: mitigation BUSA submission to Parliamentary Portfolio Committee March 2011

2. What White Paper should contain • Clear process to develop national mitigation plan including measurement and verification • Clear process to develop adaptation plan • Clear allocation of responsibilities to departments • Identification of resources required and where they will come from • Clear understanding of constraints and impacts • Mechanisms to implement conditionality of commitment

3. Development of mitigation plan • Unpacking the Copenhagen commitment • Understanding the national emissions profile • Identification of mitigation actions • Recognition of the nature of the LTMS

4. Copenhagen Commitment • Deviation from “business as usual trajectory” • Conditional on financing, technology and capacity building • Based on the LTMS adjusted for IRP1

5. Commitment as starting point • Determine “business as usual trajectory” • Understand how deviation is made up • Understand national emissions profile • Mitigation must be developed in response to national emissions profile • Identify constraints, costs and impacts of actions • Develop approaches to overcome constraints and minimise negative impacts

6. Sectoral contribution to deviation (ERC)

7. Mitigation effort to be allocated elsewhere (ERC)

8. Energy Electricity Liquid fuel Consumption Industrial processes and product use Minerals Metals Chemicals Transport Agriculture Waste Understand emissions profile: national inventory

9. Energy Electricity: Integrated Resource Plan Liquid fuel: Integrated Energy Plan Consumption: National Energy Efficiency Strategy; Co-generation rules, Solar water heater program Transport: Passenger and freight strategies Industrial processes and product use Inventory being updated Real potential being identified Some mitigation already in place Status of some mitigation actions

10. Approaches to industry emissions High cost of technology exists to capture from process and dispose of as waste eg. Nitrous oxide Carbon containing raw material releases CO2 in process. No viable technology exists currently to capture Use of waste gas or heat to generate electricity thus reducing demand on fossil fuel electricity Mitigation actions: challenges

11. Work together to develop a set of nationally appropriate mitigation actions with: Funding requirements Technology requirements Capacity building requirements Clear understanding of emissions BUSA working with DEA to improve understanding on current categories BUSA developing a more comprehensive understanding of industrial process sector Working with DOE on contribution from Energy efficiency and non Eskom generation Way forward

12. Develop “business as usual trajectory” bands Allocate emission reduction goals to each emitting sector Review on basis of technical constraints and negative impacts Develop mechanism to implement conditionality Incorporate process to do this in White Paper Process must be undertaken in consultation with emitters Way forward (2)